Global Mediterranean. Postcolonial music histories (16th-20th centuries). IMS Intercongressional Symposium

Session

Misc. 4: Reappraising musical heritage and theory

FP31

Jul 12, 2025, 11:00 AM

Aula 8

Conveners

Misc. 4: Reappraising musical heritage and theory: Miscellaneous 4

• Pasqual Hernández Farinós

20. Processos actuals de patrimonialització i folklorització en la música tradicional valenciana: dos casos d’estudi

Àlec Arribas (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

7/12/25, 11:00 AM

Free paper

-Versió en valencià-

La preservació de les denominades “músiques de tradició oral” ha sigut possible, en part, gràcies a la presència que encara hi ha en el passat de moltes societats de materials tradicionals que romanen disponibles per emprar-se en la pràctica musical contemporània (Hobsbawm, 1983). Alhora, la digitalització i la globalització han permés repensar les formes de...

99. Blown fifths, visual equidistance, and the genesis of Sundanese scales and modes in West Java, Indonesia

7/12/25, 11:20 AM

Free paper

It is well known that pioneer ethnomusicologist Jaap Kunst collaborated with Erich von Hornbostel to validate Hornbostel’s expansive blasquintentheorie (“theory of blown fifths”), which posited a common basis in the overtone series for a variety of Asian tonal systems, using Kunst’s tuning measurements from Java as examplars. It is less well known that in West Java, Jaap Kunst collaborated...

92. “As if he were not the same person”: Schenker on Casals as cellist, conductor, and businessman (remote)

7/12/25, 11:40 AM

Free paper

In diary entries dating 1926–29, the Viennese music theorist Heinrich Schenker displays a keen interest in Pablo Casals, reflecting on his activities as both a cellist and a conductor. These writings demonstrate a conflicted view. Schenker’s response to Casals’s performance of Bach’s Third Cello Suite was uncharacteristically effusive, commending the cellist’s “incomparable command of the...